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Digitally transform your business and power digital applications by unlocking your business data and assets as APIs. Create, manage, secure & socialize all your APIs across clouds to power digital applications with a market-leading & scalable API Management solution.
Overview
Value of IBM API Connect: As businesses embrace their digital transformation journey, APIs become critical to unlock the value of business data and assets. With the increasing adoption of APIs, consistency and governance are needed across your business. Full-lifecycle API management can help you create, manage, secure, and socialize your ecosystem of APIs, and implement a robust API strategy.
API Connect as a Service offers two tiers: API Connect Standard tier and API Connect Premium tier. The Standard tier includes the full lifecycle API Management capabilities with built in policies for data transformation. The Premium tier includes every feature in the Standard tier as well as advanced data transformation policies (XSLT, GatewayScript and Custom Policies) delivered through a single tenant (isolated) API Gateway. You have the ability to upgrade from a Standard tier to an Premium tier at anytime. We encourage you to schedule a live demo to learn more about both tiers of API Connect https://ibm.biz/apiconnect-demoÂ
Create APIs: Accelerate API creation with an intuitive user experience to expose data, microservices, enterprise applications, and SaaS services through open standards. Improve developer productivity and API quality using integrated developer tooling and automated test generation. Learn more about creating APIs: ibm.biz/create-apis
Manage APIs: Rapidly organize, publish, and analyze your APIs with governance and version control across the API lifecycle. Organize many types of APIs into API products with full control over visibility for consumers. With out-of-the-box dashboards, you can easily analyze your ecosystem of APIs and gain insights, such as identifying APIs best suited for monetization. Learn more about managing APIs: ibm.biz/manage-apis
Secure APIs: Reduce cybersecurity risks and protect your data and business assets with an enterprise-grade encrypted gateway near your cloud-native apps & microservices. Accelerate time to value with easy-to-apply, pre-built policies to secure, control and mediate the delivery of APIs. Learn more about securing APIs: ibm.biz/secure-apis
Socialize APIs: Increase developer productivity and get more value out of your APIs by ensuring your developer communities can easily discover, explore and consume APIs across your ecosystem. Encourage API reuse and innovation through branded and customized self-service portals and community-building features such as blogs, ratings and forums. Learn more about socializing APIs: ibm.biz/socialize-apis
Premium tier capabilities:
The Premium tier includes all full lifecycle API management capabilities from the Standard tier with added data transformation through custom code policies (XSLT, GatewayScript and Custom Policies). The Premium tier provides a single tenant API Gateway which allows you to create and use custom policies for re-usable functions across your APIs. Additionally, global policies can be set to standardize API development.
Pricing and upgrades: For custom pricing and sales inquiries or for AWS accounts outside the United States, please contact IBM Sales https://ibm.biz/apiconnect-privateoffer  It is easy and flexible to upgrade to a higher dimension within an offering or from the Standard tier to the Premium tier at anytime. For additional details about API Connect tiers, pricing, and upgrade, please visit the subscription terms page in the documentation ibm.biz/subscription-terms
Highlights
- Expand brand reach by publishing APIs to tap into a broad developer community.
- API Connect trial and enterprise are deployed in the following 6 data centers: US-East, EU-Frankfurt, UK-London, IN-Mumbai, ID-Jakarta, and AU-Sydney. Expand brand reach by publishing APIs to tap into a broad developer community. Enable digital business through new channels for partners and monetizing data.
- To get a walk-through of API Connect on AWS, schedule a live demo with one of our product experts: https://ibm.biz/apiconnect-demo
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Dimension | Description | Cost/12 months |
|---|---|---|
100K API Calls per year | API Connect aaS Standard tier | $996.00 |
500K API Calls per year | API Connect aaS Standard tier | $3,000.00 |
1M API Calls per year | API Connect aaS Standard tier | $5,004.00 |
10M API Calls per year | API Connect aaS Standard tier | $7,104.00 |
25M API Calls per year | API Connect aaS Standard tier | $8,580.00 |
50M API Calls per year | API Connect aaS Standard tier | $9,000.00 |
75M API Calls per year | API Connect aaS Standard tier | $10,080.00 |
100M API Calls per year | API Connect aaS Standard tier | $12,000.00 |
250M API Calls per year | API Connect aaS Standard tier | $18,000.00 |
1.2B API Calls per year | API Connect aaS Standard tier | $30,240.00 |
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API Lifecycle Management
Full-lifecycle management capabilities for creating, managing, securing, and socializing APIs across different environments
API Security Gateway
Enterprise-grade encrypted gateway with pre-built policies to secure and control API delivery near cloud-native apps and microservices
Data Transformation
Advanced data transformation capabilities using XSLT, GatewayScript, and custom policies for flexible API integration
Developer Tooling
Integrated developer tools with automated test generation to improve API development productivity and quality
Multi-Cloud API Governance
Comprehensive API organization, version control, and ecosystem analysis with out-of-the-box dashboards for insights and management
API Design Standards
Multi-protocol support with built-in validation and compliance checks for consistent API design across development teams
Governance Framework
Robust design rules and automated validation mechanisms to enforce API quality and standardization
Collaboration Infrastructure
Centralized workflow with real-time updates, advanced feedback capabilities, and version control for team coordination
Integration Capability
Gateway-agnostic approach with direct Amazon Web Services integration for comprehensive API lifecycle management
Development Workflow
Streamlined API design, testing, and documentation process with automated compliance and quality control mechanisms
API Workflow Management
Comprehensive platform for integrating tools and processes related to API development, management, publishing, and consumption
Authentication and Access Control
Enterprise-level administration controls including third-party SSO, SAML, SCIM, RBAC, and User Groups management
Collaborative Development Environment
Real-time workspace sharing with internal and external teams, enabling single source of truth for API development
API Collection Management
Organized system for managing, documenting, testing, and reusing API elements throughout development lifecycle
AI-Powered Development Tools
Agent Mode and AI Tooling Suite enabling natural language prompts for API creation, testing, and debugging with LLM evaluation capabilities
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Niki H.
User-Friendly with Great Integrations, but Debugging APIs Can Be Tricky
Reviewed on Oct 17, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
It is very user-friendly. The product natively provides integrations with GraphQL and AsyncAPI, which enables a full service discoverability within the Dev Portal. This capability provides a self-service service consumption.
What do you dislike about the product?
Debugging API's might get somewhat difficult
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
securing API's (often proxies) to the public world
Sairathish Murugesan
Have addressed performance challenges while benefiting from flexible subscription models and reliable user access
Reviewed on Oct 13, 2025
Review provided by PeerSpot
What is our primary use case?
We use IBM API Connect for healthcare projects, not for telecom services.
What is most valuable?
The best features IBM API Connect offers in my experience are the middleware capabilities, as it can connect the front end.
You can be more secure using JWT tokens with IBM API Connect. We can optimize API access, which will be more secure. We can add some policies to provide extra security, protect your backend, validate the consumers, and analyze based on the traffic limit to throw things out.
IBM API Connect helps with security by using OAuth 2.0 and basic authentication.
User management to authenticate the user is an important feature worth mentioning.
IBM API Connect has positively impacted my organization, as customer experience is good. Based on the subscription, we can handle the subscription, and customers use the environment as a handler, making the mechanism easy.
Based on the implementation, you can see improvements in onboarding speed. If this is a direct application, you can validate with the user and get the response from the application. If you require multiple transactions, it takes time.
What needs improvement?
To improve IBM API Connect, based on customer experience, you could work on latency. You can increase scalability and availability. If you're connecting with any other cloud, it connects to the infrastructure which needs to be managed with the customers and cloud providers, so if you have a setup, we can handle it easily.
I have faced latency issues on the server, related to our management. If you need to stabilize your server based on peak traffic, you need to configure the scalability model. You need to know when traffic peaks, so use auto-scaling when traffic comes. If the application is not in use, the value should be zero, and it starts from zero. Based on customer experience, the value will increase, and when there is no customer servicing, the peak would be reduced, making the value remain zero. Following this approach, you should be able to optimize costs and satisfy customer experience.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using IBM API Connect for four years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
In my experience, IBM API Connect is stable enough, but downtime depends on traffic and backend server configuration. If your backend server is down, you may experience downtime. If it is functioning well, you won't have a bad experience and your application becomes more reliable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
IBM API Connect's scalability is good, as you can handle it easily similar to how you manage cloud providers.
How are customer service and support?
I haven't reached out to customer support yet; there is a separate team for that.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Neutral
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
What was our ROI?
I have seen a return on investment from using IBM API Connect, as we created multiple plans based on customer usage. In those plans, we can reduce traffic, and based on the traffic, we can optimize the cost.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I have not worked on pricing, setup cost, or licensing for IBM API Connect; that part is handled by the architect.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I did not evaluate other options before choosing IBM API Connect, as I mostly worked with Apigee. It depends on the provider; IBM API Connect allows movement into on-prem architecture, while Apigee is primarily a cloud solution.
What other advice do I have?
My advice for others looking into using IBM API Connect is that it's a good platform to learn from. You can create API proxies easily, implement features effortlessly, and maintain them without hassle. There is also a support team available. It's a bit similar to Apigee and stands out as a unique platform.
Regarding a business relationship with this vendor beyond being a customer, I believe my vendor subscribed to IBM API Connect, and I'm working in the healthcare domain, so that's the vendor basis I believe.
I don't have any additional thoughts about IBM API Connect before we wrap up; it's a good opportunity to learn.
On a scale of 1-10, I rate IBM API Connect a seven out of ten.
Francis C.
A solid API management platform that works well for basic to moderately complex solutions
Reviewed on Jun 17, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
- It offers a good balance of features, security, and usability.
- It has a User-Friendly Interface.
- Solid for Mid-Level Use Cases
- It has a User-Friendly Interface.
- Solid for Mid-Level Use Cases
What do you dislike about the product?
Learning Curve for New Users is a little high. While the interface is well-structured, beginners or those without prior exposure to IBM’s ecosystem may find the initial learning curve steep.
Occasional Bugs:
The platform does occasionally exhibit bugs or inconsistencies, which can impact the developer experience. Most issues are manageable, but they can be frustrating during critical development phases.
Occasional Bugs:
The platform does occasionally exhibit bugs or inconsistencies, which can impact the developer experience. Most issues are manageable, but they can be frustrating during critical development phases.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Mainly centralized API management, Security and Access control.
KANCHAN CHALASANI
Development efficiency increases with API gateway's security and integration features
Reviewed on Apr 17, 2025
Review provided by PeerSpot
What is our primary use case?
I primarily use IBM API Connect as an API Gateway to expose enterprise APIs to the outside world. Most applications I have worked with consume APIs deployed as part of the API Gateway for internal use.
What is most valuable?
Some of the best features of IBM API Connect are the Two-Way SSL and features similar to those in IBM DataPower Gateway . The key difference is how APIs are interacted with and bundled as a product. The API Gateway eases the development of REST APIs but retains the security features of IBM DataPower Gateway . It offers significant development efficiency, reducing man-hours from eighty to four when creating APIs.
What needs improvement?
When comparing API Gateway with DataPower Gateway, several features in DataPower Gateway are absent in the APIC layer. Examples include the lack of connectivity to MQÂ . Custom code is required to connect to MQÂ and exchange messages. Enhancements for segregating APIs based on domain are needed. Auto-approval of APIs for non-prod environments has been requested. These were not developed in version 10.5.
What was my experience with deployment of the solution?
The initial setup of IBM API Connect is straightforward. Although version five was tedious, version ten doesn't take much time for infrastructure setup, whether on-premises or in the cloud. Production-ready deployment in multiple sites can take about a week with high availability.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I would rate the stability up to nine, almost ten. The runtime engine for the APIC Gateway is still a DataPower component, which has been stable in the industry for about fifteen years. Stability is evident in the transaction execution.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
With container versions, scaling up or down the gateways deployed into pods is a two to three-minute task for the operations team. It is not complex. The introduction of container versions has simplified scaling.
How are customer service and support?
Support is excellent when it comes to APIC. However, the performance issues with containerized versions of DataPower, observed during migration from legacy VMware to OpenShift Container Platform, have affected the extent of support.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
The company where I work did not have an API Management solution before choosing IBM. We evaluated MuleSoft and Apigee but opted for IBM API Connect due to pre-existing IBM Middleware infrastructure.
How was the initial setup?
The setup is not complex. While version five was somewhat tedious, version ten requires less time to build infrastructure, both on-prem and in the cloud. Production-level deployment would take about a week to achieve.
What about the implementation team?
The deployment shouldn't take more than one resource with approximately a week's effort.
What was our ROI?
Development efforts minimized significantly. Reducing development hours from eighty to four for an API was possible due to reusing existing scripts from DataPower.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Pricing depends on how many instances run across environments. I don't deal with licensing, but compared to other IBM products, the licensing is not significantly higher.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Before choosing IBM API Gateway, we evaluated MuleSoft and Apigee .
What other advice do I have?
IBM API Connect was chosen mainly for its compatibility with existing scripts and frameworks, minimizing development effort, especially in aspects like authentication, logging, and auditing. I would definitely recommend it. Overall, I rate it nine out of ten.
Satish K.
I am a senior software developer. I have worked as full stack developer and DevOps Engineer
Reviewed on Dec 07, 2024
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I love security features and features like rate limiting and throttling
What do you dislike about the product?
UI can be improved and pricing is a bit higher comparatively
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Overall API creation and management. It helps us in security and scalability of our APIs.